Robert Joe Harris
1951 - 1985 (34 years)
Generation: 1
1. Robert Joe Harris was born on 12 Jan 1951 in Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 14 Aug 1985 in Mason County, Kentucky; was buried in Caudill Cemetery, Sharkey, Rowan County, Kentucky. Notes:
Vehicle hits, kills Nicholasville man
A 34-year-p;d Nicholasville man was struck and killed by a vehicle early yesterday in mays Lick, according to the Mason County sheriff’s office.
Robert Joe Harris of 142 Lois Lane in Nicholasville was driving south in U.S.68 with his brother, Samuel Harris, 28, of Lexington, when the two decided to change places in the car.
Mason County Deputy Sheriff Roger Case said that Samuel Harris told authorities that his brother stumbled and fell backward into the highway’s northbound land as he was getting out of the driver’s side of the car, which was stopped in the southbound lane. Robert Harris then was struck by a northbound vehicle, possibly a dark Ford Bronco.
Harris, who sustained massive head injuries, was dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred about 3:15 a.m., Case said.
Samuel Harris told authorities that he and his brother were returning from a bar in Aberdeen, Ohio, at the time of the accident. Alcohol is thought to be a factor in the death, Case said.
He said authorities were still looking for the drive of the other vehicle last night.
Harris, a former Fleming County resident, was a machinist and the husband of Rose Marie Harris.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Little Mary Baptist Church at Maxie Flats. Burial will be in Caudill Cemetery in Rowan County. Visitation will be after 5:30 p.m. Friday at Denton Funeral Home in Flemingsburg.
Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, Kentucky. Thursday, 15 August 1985.
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